田土廳兼婚姻注册官年報 | Land Office & Registrar of Marriage Annual Report 1948-1949





HONG KONG

ANNUAL DEPARTMENTAL REPORT

OF THE

LAND OFFICER

AND

 

REGISTRAR OF MARRIAGES

FOR THE PERIOD

1ST APRIL, 1948 TO 31ST MARCH, 1949.

ANNUAL REPORT

PART I—LAND OFFICE.

Registration.

1. The total of instruments registered pursuant to the Land Registration Ordinance was 6,779. Of these 2,702 represented Assignments as against 2,855 Assignments registered in the previous year, and 1,629 in 1946/47, but the total consideration on such Assignments was $155,597,001.77 as compared with $143,640,294.72 in 1947/48, $64,441,664.07 in 1946/47 and $23,236,495.71 in 1939.

2. There was a considerable increase in the number of Mortgages registered, there being a total of 1,680 as against 1,348 in 1947/48. The total amount involved in these Mortgages was $115,410,875.00 as compared with a total of $72,276,730.00 in 1947/48 and $41,012,489.00 in 1946/47.

3. The total consideration in respect of Sales, Mortgages and all other instruments registered was $314,678,956.77 as com- pared with $253,562,305.21 in the previous year, an increase of $61,116,651.77. In 1939 the total consideration in respect of all transactions registered in the Land Office was under $50,000,000.00.

4. The totals of instruments registered in the last ten years. for which records are available are shown in Table I and cate- gorical and monthly analyses appear in Tables II & III.

Crown Leases.

pre-

5. In view of heavy pressure of other work and the difficulties of obtaining sufficient qualified legal staff the work of the paration and issue of Crown Leases came almost to a standstill in the years immediately following the re-occupation of the Colony with the result that a very heavy accumulation now exists. Satisfactory arrangements for resuming the work were recently concluded as a result of which it is hoped that the number of Crown Leases issued each month will be substantially increased. In the year under review 86 Crown Leases were issued as compared with 6 in the previous year, the fees collected under this head being $10,045.00 as compared with $360.00 in the previous year. Particulars of these are shown at Tables IV and V and the totals for the last ten years (for which figures are available) are shown in Table I.

Exemptions from the Moratorium.

6. The restrictions imposed by the Moratorium against transactions affecting land which had been dealt with during the period of the Japanese occupation were lifted as from 1.12.48 and Table X shows the number of applications received during 1948/49 up to that date, the number of lots or sections of lots involved and the totals in respect of all applications received since the re-occupation of the Colony. In the second part of this Table

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are shown also details in connection with applications received for exemption from the provisions of the Moratorium permitting mortgagees to exercise their power of sale in connection with pre-war Mortgages.

Fees.

7. The total of Land Office fees collected (exclusive of the New Territories) amounted to $179,533.60 as compared with $122,544.50 in 1947/48, and $90,984.30 in the 1946/47. This represents an increase of nearly 50 per cent over the 1947/48 total, which was itself a record, and is the highest figure that has ever been recorded for the Land Office.

8. A monthly analysis is shown in Table V, and Table VI gives the total fees collected during the last ten years for which figures are available.

9. Land Registration fees in the New Territories were $53,717.50 as against $37,308.90 in the previous year and $14,799 in 1946/47. Fees for Crown Leases issued amounted to $30.00, and Table IX gives details of Crown Land granted, sold, resumed, re-entered or surrendered during the year.

Surrenders.

10. Surrenders of 18 lots were prepared and registered in the Land Office as compared with 15 in the previous year.

Stamp Duties.

11. Stamp Duties paid on documents registered (exclusive of Probates and Letters of Administration) amounted to $7,940,678.44 as compared with $9,644,078.21 in the previous year, $1,687,226.81 in 1946/47 and $270,000.00 in 1939. The decrease in the total Stamp duty paid as compared with the year 1947/1948, despite the fact that the total consideration referred to in para. 3 of this Report was greatly in excess of the total for the previous year, is considered to be due to the fact that the figures for the year 1947/48 reflect the results of the excess Stamp duty imposed in respect of new assignments on sale under the Stamp Amendment Ordinance 1946 which was at the rate of ten per cent of the amount of the excess consideration, whereas by the Stamp (Amendment) Ordinance 1948 which came into force in September 1948, this excess duty was abolished and in its place was substituted an excess Stamp duty of three per cent upon the total value of the consideration of property comprised in an assignment (but excluding property which had already borne the excess Stamp duty payable under the earlier enactments) though the same Ordinance nevertheless increased the ordinary rate of ad valorem conveyance on sale duty from 1 per cent to 2 per cent. The monthly figures are shown in the last column of Table III,

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Crown Rents.

12. The number of lots entered on the Hongkong & Kowloon Crown Rent Roll was 13,266 and the total Crown Rents amounted to $862,402.08 as compared with $827,720.66 in the previous year. The increases were in the urban areas and in Rural Building Lots. Table VII is a statement by localities.

13. The number of lots entered in the Village Crown Rent Roll as shown by localities in Table VIII was 1922 a decrease of four as compared with the previous year. Total Crown Rent was $1,272.55, a slight decrease as compared with the previous year.

14. During the year the number of Sections the Crown Rents of which were determined under the Crown Rents (Apportionment) Ordinance 1936, was 192 as compared with 21 in the previous year and the fees collected in this connection amounted to $2,572.00 against $279.00 for the previous year.

Kai Tak Airfield Extension.

15. The Airfield (Kai Tak) Extension and Reversion Ordin- ance 1948 came into force on the 16th July 1948, which measure provided a legal basis for the reversion to the Crown of the areas added to the Airfield as a result of demolition of buildings and dispossession of the occupants by the Japanese in 1942. Claims for compensation under the machinery of the Ordinance fall to be adjudicated upon by the Land Officer in respect of Kowloon and New Kowloon, and by the District Officer in respect of the New Territories other than New Kowloon. 552 claims to a total exceeding $3,500,000.00 require adjudication within Kowloon and New Kowloon, and before the close of the year claims in excess of $300,000.00 had been settled. The larger burden of the claims. will be presented in the forthcoming year, and it has been necessary to set up the machinery therefor beforehand.

GENERAL NOTE.

16. There has been an extremely heavy all round increase in the work of the Land Office in recent times as compared with the pre-war years, due in part to the marked expansion in normal business, but also to a variety of other causes, some of which it is appropriate to note here.

(a) The issue of "new title" in respect of a large number of

expiring Crown Leases.

The first group of the 75 years Crown Leases granted at different dates during the last century (i.e. Leases which were originally granted for one fixed term of 75 years) is now reaching the end of the leasehold term: Terms for the grant of new Leases have already been arranged in many of these cases in the years which have elapsed since the reoccupation of the Colony but a very large number remains to be dealt with, being Leases which will expire in 1950 and 1951, and in the immediately

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following years.

This will involve settling the terms for renewal and preparing and issuing preliminary title, and later the new Crown Leases, in some thousands of individual cases.

(b) Similarly Crown Leases of all piers in the Colony (which were granted originally for one fixed term of 50 years) expired on 31st December, 1949. Approximately 100 piers are involved, and it is necessary to conclude arrange- ments for the issue of new title in all these cases. (c) During the period of the Japanese occupation of the Colony, some 5,000 transactions in land such as Sales, Reassignments and other dealings took place. records of the Japanese House Registration Office main- tained in respect of these transactions were taken over intact on the re-occupation and the entries transferred to the normal Land Office Registers in the form of green ink entries against the titles affected. These green ink entries have led to a large number of applications to which of course special consideration apply.

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(d) In order to further the provision of much needed extra housing accommodation, a large number of grants of land on special concessionary terms have been made.

The Land Office has thus had to deal with the provision of title to a very large number of individual house sites as well as to a number of large areas made available on special terms to companies or associations for develop- ment as housing estates.

(e) Land Office work in connection with the resumption of land under the provisions of the Crown Lands Resumption Ordinance, 1900 has now assumed much greater pro- portions than hitherto, there being in addition to the Kai Tak Airfield Resumption claims, of which separate mention is made in the preceding paragraph of this report, many other resumptions and surrenders of land for street widening, town planning and other public purposes, either proceeding or pending. This work involves the preliminary steps in the issue of resumption notices, the arrangements in connection with the con- stitution and sittings of the Compensation Board, pre- paration of Deeds of Surrenders and later the investiga- tion of the title and the subsequent payment of the -compensation claims in the case of each individual land

owner.

(f) As was to be expected, the conditions prevailing in the post-war years have led to many applications for the grant of land on special terms for churches, schools, clubs and charitable and other societies, and grants have been made in a variety of such cases subject to appropriate restrictive conditions.

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(g) The greatly extended requirements of the three Services have necessarily resulted in the need for much additional land to be made available to them.

Due to the difficulties of recruiting suitable officers, augmentation of the staff to meet the much increased volume of work resulting from these causes has proceeded very slowly, and some inconvenience to the public through delay has therefore been unavoidable.

Cessation of the Land Office and Marriage Registry as a separate department.

17. The Land Office and Marriage Registry as from 1st April 1949 became incorporated in the new Registrar General's Department, established under the provisions of the Registrar General's (Establishment) Ordinance, 1949. This is therefore

the last occasion on which the report of the Land Office and Marriage Registry will appear as a separate Report.

Year

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TABLE I

Number of Instruments and Crown Leases

granted During the Year 1933 to 1948.

Instruments registered

Crown Leases granted

1933

5,152

721

1934

4,441

673

1935

4,044

503

1936

3,962

638

1937

3,847

742

1938

3,752

520

1939

3,839

497

1946/47

4,228

18

1947/48

6,391

6

1948/49

6,357

86

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TABLE 11

Consideration on Instruments registered in the Land Office for the period of 1st April, 1948-31st March, 1949.

No of Lots

Description of

Instruments

Number

or portion

registered

of Lots affected

Total consideration

Assignments

2,702

3,115

155,597,001.77

Mortgages and Transfer

of Mortgages

1,680

2,300

115,410,875.00

Reassignments and Certi-

ficates of Satisfaction.......

1,277

1,676

43,594,334.00

Surrenders

18

22

76,746.00

Judgments and Orders of

Court

63

95

Miscellaneous documents.

679

1,512

Probates and Letters of

Administration (Estate

duties and interest)

$3,501,988.50

360

727

Total

6,779

9,447

314,678,956.77

PERIOD

1948

ASSIGNMENTS

MORTGAGES

Deeds Lots Consideration Deeds Lots Consideration

C.

$

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TABLE III LAND OFFICE

Deed statistics for the period 1st April, 1948 to 31st March, 1949.

REASSIGNMENTS

SURRENDERS

COURT ORDERS

PROBATE ESTATE DUTY

VERANDAH

RE-ENTRY

AGREEMENT

DEED OF COVENANTS

MISCEL- LANEOUS

STAMP ON DEEDS

Deeds Lots Consideration

$

Deeds Lots Consideration

Deeds Lots Deeds Lots

Deeds Lots

Deeds! Lots

Deeds Lots Deeds Lots

Deeds Lots

C.

APRIL

283 322

MAY

239 261

JUNE

260 290

11,967,864.77 145 194

15,214,020

127 175

13,496,675 149 177

JULY

260 314

16,504,655

AUGUST

SEPTEMBER 153 166

OCTOBER

182 238

NOVEMBER 221 242

DECEMBER 236 263

1949

JANUARY

FEBRUARY

MARCH

226 277

12,885,682

19,017,667

7,493,747

138 267

134 197

130 | 164

113 160

12,278,502

130 161

14,542,735

151 197

10,438,400 108 131

5,865,224 99 125

7,667,500 121 157

10,448,168

19,841,200

9,492,500

6,062,737

12,426,200 105 136

8,521,994

5,690,200

1

2,632

4

7

38

58

17 22

2

6

N

29

45 713,352.50

4,453,455

1

1

2,760

5 |

8

25

63

24

24

6

7

1

1

45

79 1,056,642.88

3,403,420

1

1

2,082

3 |

8

49 | 81

2

18

22

4

4

30

35

855,407.10

103 147

111 147

2,458,146

3

2,250

2 |

3

27

50

6

1

4

30

59 1,046,625.65

4,262,293

N

3,220

8

14

32

64

12

13

18

18

25

609

874,843.70

88 | 122

73

3,321,760

1

1

4

4

32

62

19

20

3

3

11

17

23

646,294.50

89

1,838,680

3

1,205

1

3

25

72

14

15

1

1

4

4

22

37

466,421.25

3,052,100

1

3 |

3

29

114 139

3,713,026

2

2

1,197

11

11

24

$9

64

22

¡ 29

2

13

15

40

50

453,130.65

39

10

12

1

6

42

52

569,682.86

211 251

187 |

244 | 278

213

11,541,996

10,928,275

9,725,183

155 208

158 207

150 193

7.925,349

8,027,208

8,694,395

113

116 153

168

126 162

4,377,697

1

50,000

9

24

41

20 | 28

3,120,226

3,903,331

11

19

39❘ 97

2

2

11,400

5

6

16 | 36

5 8

T

14

21

1

3

47

57

407,561.85

34

65

421,879.20

39

76

428,836.30

TOTAL

2,702 | 3,115 155,597,001.77 1,680 | 2,300

115,410,875 1,277 | 1,676

43,594,334

18 | 22

76,746

63 95

360

727

176

214

42

1123

44

66

1 |

400

1,187 7,940,678.44

I

36

3

Victoria Inland

Victoria Garden

Rural Building

Stanley Inland

Shaukiwan Inland

Shek O Inland

00

8

1

1

3

18

1

Inland Lots

TABLE IV

Crown Leases Granted During the Year 1st April, 1948 to 31st March, 1949.

Kowloon

New Kowloon

Total

Lots

Lots

Kowloon Inland

Kowloon Marine

New Kowloon Inland

Tai Po Inland

14

1

86

13.

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TABLE V

Return of Monthly Revenue paid in Stamps to the Land Office during the year 1st April, 1948 to 31st March, 1949.

Month

Registration of deeds

copy & etc.

Searches, Crown Lease

fees

Total

1948

April

10,425.00

1,621.50

180.00

12,226.50

May

9,198.00 1,527.10

60.00

10,785.10

June

9,958.00 2,977.00

180.00

13,115.00

July

10,044.00 2,178.50

250.00

12,472.50

August

September

October

13,260.00 2,369.00

10,680.00 2,207.00

13,032.00

9,679.00 2,353.00 1,305.00 13,337.00

435.00 16,064.00

145.00

November

12,645.00 2,426.00

2,025.00 17,096.00

December | 14,796.00 3,145.50

1,445.00 19,386.50

1949

January

14,066.00

1,897.00

1,075.00

17,038.00

February

13,056.00

2,072.00

725.00

15,853.00

March

14,162.00

2,746.00

2,220.00 19,128.00

141,969.00 27,519.60

10,045.00 179,533.60

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TABLE VI

Fees Collected During the Years 1933 to 1948.

Year

Registration of Deeds

Searches & Copies of Documents

Grants of Leases

Total

$

$

1933

81,508.00

8,547.25

36,810.00

126,865.25

1934

67,345.00

6,863.25 35,850.00

110,058.25

1935

61,133.00

6,811.50 25,270.00 93,214.50

1936

59,310.00

6,296.75

33,960.00

99,566.75

1937

47,887.00

8,639.50

39,760.00

96,286.50

1938

54,332.00 10,258.75

27,360.00

91,950.75

1939

57,729.00 11,433.00

25,670.00 94,832.00

1946/47

1947/48 105,560.00 16,624.50

1948/49 141,969.00 27,519.60

72,398.00 17,506.30 1,080.00 90,984.30

360.00 122,544.50

10,045.00 179,533.60

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TABLE VII

HONG KONG AND KOWLOON RENT ROLL.

Locality and description

No. of Total Crown

Lots

rent

C.

Victoria Marine Lot

499

69,841.01

Praya Reclamation Marine Lot. Inland Lot

28

858.91

5,736

269,142.18

Quarry Bay Marine Lot

4

18,948.00

Inland Lot

13

,,

4,024.00

Victoria Farm Lot

6

381.55

Garden Lot

64

2,720.00

Rural Building Lot

354

81,501.97

Aberdeen Marine Lot

7

576.52

Inland Lot

Aplichau Marine Lot

Inland Lot

88

2,218.97

20

113.88

48

283.48

Shaukiwan Marine Lot

Stanley Inland Lot

10

2,308.00

Inland Lot

Pokfulam Dairy Farm Lot

Kowloon Marine Lot

234

5,109.30

8

55.00

4

2,712.00

55

50,930.82

Inland Lot

Garden Lot

3,367

155,358.22

1

1.00

91

"

Hung Hom Marine Lot

Inland Lot

Shek O Inland Lot

Tai Tam Inland Lot

Tong Po Inland Lot

4

9,130.00

200

9,379.00

23

139.00

1

1.00

1

1.00

New Kowloon Marine Lot

3

18,938.00

Inland Lot

2,411

130,117.27

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Rural Building Lot

1

42.00

Tai Po Inland Lot

8

646.00

Fan Ling Lot

2

1,892.00

Sheung Shui Lot

13

3,512.00

Mining Lot

4

2,724.00

Tsun Wan Marine Lot

6

12,436.00

Inland Lot

15

2,980.00

New Kowloon Dairy Farm Lot

19

1,142.00

Tsing I Marine Lot

1

76.00

Ping Shan Inland Lot

8

2,162.00

Total

13,266

862,402.08

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TABLE VIII

VILLAGE RENT ROLL.

Locality and description

No. of Total Crown

Lets

rent

$

C.

Aberdeen

14

43.50

Pokfulam

24

28.25

Tai Hang

156

632.50

Ah Kung Ngam

25

18.25

Shaukiwan

27

15.00

Hau Pui Loong

11

43.00

Wong Tsuk Hang

2

34.50

Tai Hang Stream

7

20.00

Tong Po

1

2.50

Tytam Tuk

3

2.50

Chung Hom Bay

1

.50

Telegraph Bay

11

33.00

Little Hong Kong

176

68.10

Shek O

310

64.00

Hok Tsui

123

26.80

Chai Wan

Stanley

721

125.80

310

114.35

Total

1,922

1,272.55

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TABLE IX

ANNUAL DEPARTMENTAL REPORT 1948/1949.

DISTRICT OFFICE NEW TERRITORIES.

Item

Premium or fee

lots

No. of Areas in Amounts acres collected

$

C.

Sales by public auction...119,468.00

220

287.51

$

119,468.00

C.

Sales without auction

9,001.00

34

3.45

9,001.00

Extensions of areas to

Lots

Grants on nominal terms.

1

.10

Grants on short leases... 19,972.00

3

65.08

19,972.00

Extensions of terms of

leases

Exchange

2

.19

Conversions

57,889.97

136

9.775

57,889.97

Permanent piers

Mining leases

Cemeteries

Temporary piers

Quarries

4,650.00

7

4,650.00

Permits

51,415.70 2,561

51,415.70

(permits)

Prospecting & mining

licences

Boundary stones

Survey

Re-entries

2,498

175.25

Resumptions

75

5.99

Surrenders

136

77.59

Reversions (Kai Tak

Airfield)

1,391

89.50

Miscellaneous

TABLE X

(i) Applications for the grant of exemption by the Land Officer from the restrictions contained in Moratorium Proclamation No. 6, Part IV, Article 8- Dealings in Land'.

No. of applications

Period.

sent in.

No. of Lots or Sections of Lots involved.

No. of documents involved.

Assignments.

Reassignments

Miscellaneous

A.

8.1.46 to 31.3.46

31

43

19

16

3

B.

1.4.46 to 31.3.47

675

770

592

161

18

C.

1.4.47 to 31.3.48

341

503

361

94

44

D. 1.4.48 to 31.11.48

292

302

246

45

14

Total:

1,339

1,618

1,218

316

79

(ii) Applications for the grant of exemption by H.E. the Governor under Moratorium Proclamation No. 6, Part III, Article 7 for the purpose of enabling mortgagees to exercise their powers of sale under mortgages.

Period.

No. of applications sent in.

No. of Lots or Sections of Lots involved.

A. 7.11.46 to 31. 3.47

B.

C.

1. 4.47 to 31. 3.48

1. 4.48 to 31.11.48

Total:

2

12

12

265

3

23

23

49

1

19

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PART II-MARRIAGE REGISTRY.

Marriages.

1. The number of marriages celebrated in the Colony during the year (1.4.48-31.3.49) was 2951 (of which 2479 were between Chinese persons) as compared with 2,864 (and 2626) respectively in 1947-an increase of 87. Particulars are given in Table I infra.

Fees.

2. The total amount of fees received under the second schedule of the Marriage Ordinance 1875, and the Marriage (War Period) (Validity) Ordinance 1948, was $30,377.00 compared with $29,537.00 in 1947-an increase of $840.00. Particulars are shewn in Table II. The increase is mainly accounted for by the greater number of marriages.

3. The number of marriages solemnised and the total amount of fees collected each year during the ten years (1933-1939 and 1946-1948) are shewn in Table III.

TABLE I

(1) Marriages by SPECIAL LICENCE, 3.

(a) At licensed places of

(b) At the Office of the

Public Worship.

3.

Registrar of Marriages.

Nil.

(2) Marriages by REGISTRAR'S CERTIFICATE, 2948.

(a) At licensed places of

Public Worship.

360.

(b) At the Office of the

Registrar of Marriages.

2588.

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TABLE II

Fees received during the period of 1.4.48—31.3.49.

Fees received.

2957 Certificates of Notice

(Registrar's Certificates)

@$ 1.00 $ 2,957.00

244 Certified copies

@ $ 1.00

244.00

27 Licences under Section 9 of

Ordinance No. 7 of 1875

@ $ 30.00

810.00

3 Special Licences

@ $150.00

450.00

2588 Marriages at the office of the

Registrar

@ $ 10.00

25,880.00

16

Searches

(a)

$ 1.00

16.00

4

Searches under Section 9 of

the Marriage (War Period) (Validity) Ordinance 1948

Total

$ 5.00

20.00

$30,377.00

Year

TABLE II|

No. of Marriages.

solemnized

Total amount of fees collected

C.

1933

283

2,440.00

1934

325

3,327.90

1935

368

3,197.00

1936

375

3,168.00

1937

421

3,286.16

1938

544

5,081.00

1939

781

7,439.00

1946

860

9,691.00

1947

2,864

29,537.00

1948

2,951

30,377.00

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PART III-STAFF.

Mr. E. H. Sainsbury acted as Land Officer and Registrar of Marriages from the beginning of the year under review until the return from leave of the Land Officer who resumed duty on 22nd November 1948.

Mr. G. L. Herdman remained as Deputy Registrar of Marriages throughout the year.

The Land Officer and Registrar of Marriages desires to take this opportunity of recording his high appreciation of the way in which all members of the staff of the Land Office and Marriage Registry have carried out their duties under difficult conditions of abnormally heavy pressure of work.

March, 1950.

W. ANEURIN JONES Land Officer and

Registrar of Marriages.


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The text is purely generated by OCR, and is only for quick reference and search purposes. Do not use it for formal research citations.


如未能 buy us a coffee,點擊一下 Google 廣告,也能協助我們長遠維持伺服器運作,甚至升級效能!

If you can't buy us a coffee, click on the Google ad, which can also help us maintain the server operation in the long run, and even upgrade the performance!